Allen preserves a kind of authorial detachment from the actors; he stands apart from them, watching, judging, mulling, and then, like a novelist scrapping and recasting a chapter, he has been known to dismiss an actor and reshoot the scene.
Specifically, it is a vision of how to discover order in a random universe – something that runs the risk of seeming crackpot, or being proved unworkable, and yet preserves a kind of nobility.
This way, one might have interaction yet preserve a kind of nomological closure, in the sense that no laws are infringed.
Mr. Dakelman said he had long wished that this section of road could be preserved as a kind of highway museum.
"It's exactly the way it was," Mr. De Niro said as he walked among the paintbrushes, canvases and old-school kitchen, which the family has preserved as a kind of shrine since his grandfather Robert De Niro Sr .died in 1993.
Ever since, the ruins have been preserved as a kind of monument to American perfidy -- with the implicit suggestion that Qaddafi, too, has been the victim of terrorism -- and are a favored backdrop for his infrequent media appearances.
Everything in this 3rd arrondissement classic has been preserved in a kind of homage to Paris in the 1950s, with bright lighting, wobbly tables, and wood burning stove.
Everything in this 3rd arrondissement classic has been preserved in a kind of homage to Paris in the 1950s, with bright lighting, wobbly tables, and a wood-burning stove.
As he put it, in a 1958 radio interview with the BBC, poems preserve "a particular kind of experience, a feeling that you are the only one to have noticed something, something especially beautiful or sad or significant".
It is a good idea to take time to preserve any kind of wooden areas though with a dedicated barbecue wood oil treatment.
